US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on June 23 for "Just-in-time post-quantum cryptography (PQC) key expansion" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,756, issued on June 23, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Just-in-time post-quantum cryptography (PQC) key expansion" was invented by Lukas Holzbaur (Munich), Manuela Meier (Munich) and Alexander Zeh (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described techniques address issues associated with current post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms by providing a more efficient means of key expansion. Architectures are provided for both an accelerator and an expander, which may be implemented in accordance with any suitable type of cryptographic algorithm that utilizes key expansion, such as PQC algorithms, a...